Write Every Day, Day #8

[auroracloud]

I'm not yet doing all that great yet at following the more reasonable schedule I set for myself, like going to bed early and not leaving writing and posting until I'm half asleep. But hey, at least thinking about it and stuff is a step in the right direction. On the upside, I slept okay last night and I wasn't particularly cranky today. I was awfully tired, though; in the evening, when I was done with everything else, I just kind of hid under the covers for an hour and a half. You wouldn't think just staying home is so exhausting, but when you're still making yourself plenty busy on most days, it turns out it is... I may need to actually take a bit of an Easter break, rather than just the regular two days of weekend. Anyway, nothing more profound today, as I need to go to bed!

Today's Writing

I didn't manage to make time for writing in the morning, so I've just written some in the evening. No new manuscript words this time, but I did some planning work around the novel: I went to the character files of the project and took a look at what I had on certain supporting characters, and changed quite a bit and added things. It seems my thoughts about some of these characters have developed a lot, and that's good!


Tally

Day 1: alexcat, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, china_shop, carenejeans, cornerofmadness, deifire, elliet, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 3: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Day 4: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 5: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, lferion, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, the_siobhan, trobadora, yasaman

Day 6: alexseanchai, auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, deifire, lferion, luzula, nafs, sanguinity, shadaras, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman

Day 7: auroracloud, badly_knitted, carenejeans, china_shop, cornerofmadness, deifire, falkner, luzula, nafs, sakana17, sanguinity, shadaras, silveradept, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme

Day 8: auroracloud, china_shop

Let me know if I missed you on the tally, or if you wrote but didn't check in yet! You can join in or drop out any time.

Comments

[luzula]

Today's wordcount: 700 words
Total wordcount on fic: 4,800 words

I am so pleased with how this story is progressing so far. : )

[auroracloud]

Yes, it sounds like you're making really good progress! That's great! :-)

[badly_knitted]

Eveything is exhausting right now because of stress. Glad you had a better night.

I made good progress in the garden, it was a hot day but I was mostly in the shade. I cut back the last bit I needed to remove from an overgrown shrub; had to take a saw to it, so it's gone from about 14 feet tall to maybe 6 feet at the tallest part. It'll grow several feet this year with the new shoots, but come next spring I'll cut it back further. Too late to do that this year. I think that was sufficient exercise for today though...

April 8th - 901 words. Started a new challenge fic which I hope to finish tomorrow, and wrote a 150 word drabble. Quite pleased with both.

[auroracloud]

Sounds like quite a bit of work in the garden! And a nice bit of writing, too, I'm glad you're pleased with the stories!

[badly_knitted]

It was, and I've been working out there again today. There's so much to do, and it's going to be a slow process, but I enjoy being outside when the weather's nice. Trouble is, things keep growing back =/

Sometimes I do like what I write ;)

[trobadora]

921 words for me on the 8th.

[auroracloud]

Sounds great!

[shadaras]

Today while writing I have realised that one of my characters doesn't know how to cook and the other one is a shitty cook and this has derailed my expected scene from 'wait how can we get out of here' to 'wtf you don't know what pasta is?' but it's fun, so I don't mind at all.

I also wrote a couple hundred words exploring an idea for an exchange fic, but I dunno if I'm going to continue on that idea or save it for some other non-exchange fic.

[china_shop]

and this has derailed my expected scene from 'wait how can we get out of here' to 'wtf you don't know what pasta is?'

HEE! ♥

[auroracloud]

this has derailed my expected scene from 'wait how can we get out of here' to 'wtf you don't know what pasta is?' but it's fun, so I don't mind at all.

Nor should you mind! Those scenes are so much fun! And it's also true because people will get derailed into weird stuff when they should be focusing on something else. I think it sounds great. :-)

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for developments and characters changing in good ways! That's always such a happy thing!

:-)

I added 970 words to Bond/Q today.

[auroracloud]

Yay for more Bond/Q writing! :-)

[deifire]

Sleeping well is always a great thing.

Today: 363 words in the early morning. Hoping I can get this chapter finished in the next week.

[auroracloud]

It is, and all too elusive sometimes, sadly!

Yay morning writing. :-) Good luck with getting your chapter finished.

[nafs]

Continued on from where I left off yesterday. Filled a hole. A small one, but progress is progress.

[auroracloud]

Yes, progress is progress! Any writing you did is more than you had the day before. :-) So well done for filling that hole!

[sanguinity]

Apr 8: A couple longhand pages before work today.

[auroracloud]

Sounds good! Glad you got your writing time before work. :-)

[china_shop]

You wouldn't think just staying home is so exhausting

Sooo exhausting! *much hugs*

9th: I made a point of not leaving writing till last and just added at least 600 words to my fic. \o/ Now to do all the things I put on hold so I could do that! ;-P

[auroracloud]

*huuuuuugs*

Excellent progress! Glad that making a point of giving writing its time worked for you! Good luck getting the other things done! I'm familiar with the problem...

[sierranovembr]

Two types of writing done today; lucky me finding some motivation! About 460 words on a paper for work and 250 words on my fic WIP. Hooray!

[auroracloud]

Excellent! Glad you found motivation and managed to work on both of those things!

[cornerofmadness]

It was a very trying day so I couldn't write until late. Got 455 words on the long prodigal son story and posted the last chapter and then 1408 words on a surprise comment fic

[auroracloud]

Sounds like a very productive writing day for one where you got to writing quite late! Congrats for managing all that, and yay for surprise fic. :-)

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. It was

[lferion]

Day 8 - 100 words on a drabble, and some mulling about how I am going to approach my very awesome and interesting genprompt bingo card.

[auroracloud]

Yay drabble - I'm so terrible at writing real drabbles because I have a hard time being that concise, so I'm always in awe of people who manage them. And yay for getting an awesome and interesting genprompt bingo card. Good luck with it!

[yasaman]

Day 8: 1,809 words across two WIPs today! Again, mostly on the fluff and not on the plot. Still, I'll take it, and gladly.

[auroracloud]

Woo hoo, sounds great! And fluff is good, bring us all the fluff! ♥

[carenejeans]

Day 8: More work on the nonfiction project -- it went a bit more smoothly today!

Also, I wrote an alibi sentence! Go me! ;-)

[auroracloud]

Glad the nonfiction project went more smoothly! And yay for the alibi sentence! It means you're working on fiction, whatever the speed! :-)